Egyptian Foundation deposits (weapons of copper, include a hoe blade, a knife and two spearheads.), from royal pyramids. The burial of foundation deposit formed part of a series of ritual acts which were regularly performed at the founding of important...

SARCOPHAGUS IN WHICH THE EMBALMED BODY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED BY PTOLEMY FROM THE RUINS OF THE SOMA IN ALEXANDRIA This Sarcophagus is in the British Museum, 1888 engraving

Model of the foreleg of a horned animal, perhaps from a foundation deposit, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1295 B.C., From Egypt, Wood; remains of black pigment, L. 12.7 cm (5 in.), The smoothed edges on this foreleg of an ox indicate that it is not...

Miners working metal deposits by means of descending levels, a method practised in Hungary, Saxony and Prussia in the early 19th century. From Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

Working metal deposits at Stolberg, Prussia, Germany, in direct or descending steps. The miners are working by the light of oil lamps with naked flames as in metal mines there was none of the inflammable gas methane to contend with. The ore is being...